VIDEOAKT is a festival that
takes place in every two years
in Barcelona (Spain) and
Berlin (Germany). This is the
second edition of VIDEOAKT,
that in his first edition left
Berlin and moved to Barcelona. In this issue depart from
Barcelona and then moved
to Berlin.
VIDEOAKT is a platform
for connectivity, creates networks between institutions
and organizations supporting
the videoart development.
Such connections start with
invited institutions’ video
selections, with the presence
of its curators and artists. In
addition, a selection of artists
are invited through an open
call, selected by a jury of experts, promoting the diffusion
of their works. The Amister
award sponsors three winners, donated by the Hotel
Amister Barcelona, between
the artists selected for the
open call.
VIDEOAKT has grown at
a good rate on balance with
the previous edition: for the
competition section we have
received more than 380
videos of Asia, Arab countries,
Central and Eastern Europe,
America, Australia, doubling in
number and participation of
countries in the last version
and with a significant Spanish participation. In addition,
between the international
organizations’ curated section
we have a significant pres-

ence of transcendent organizations in the history of video
art such as WWVF World Wide
Video Festival Foundation,
whose festival was one of the
pioneers in Europe, and now
is a foundation dedicated to
the production of video art
and new media. We also enjoy
the presence of video art
biennial Videobrasil, that has
become an annual contemporary art festival, and the third
in the world who launched an
art festival with new technologies.
We open this edition with
a new section: a tribute to a
video art world pioneer artist,
the first to use advanced
technologies in his work. He
is Robert Cahen (France) that
will show us his complete
works produced over the
years, found in the book of
video art history and that
has gone through the major
museums around the world.
One of his last retrospectives
has been shown at the Reina
Sofia Museum in Madrid.
VIDEOAKT aims to promote
and create cultural exchanges
in the field of visual arts, offering the opportunity of connection between institutions,
artists and cultural managers from around the world,
putting emphasis on cultural
diversity. We also provide
a historical and current
overview with local projects,
and the contextualization of
these, within a global sphere.

Is the award/prize given
to the artists who have
participated in the open call
competition by the art collection Amister of the Amister
Hotel Barcelona, consisting of
the purchase of the winning
videos, travel and stay at the
hotel. Actually Amister collection is the most important
video art collection of Catalonia and the second in Spain. It
is in a permanent exhibition in
the hotel and also comprises
a video channel in the TV of
each room where the countless video art collection of
Sisita Soldevila, collector of
the Amister collection, can be
viewed.

As artist for videos, cinema,
photography, he is one of the
most significant figures in the
video art history and international video installation, with
more than fifty movies and
videos shown in museums
around the whole world
such as George Pompidou,
Le museé Gustave Moureu,
Museo National Reina Sofia,
ZKM among others .
Robert Cahen is considered
as a pioneer in the use of
new electronical technologies
, especially his new way of
treating images.
His work is developping of
the dynamics and the esthetics of the movement, by his
musical studies coworking
with Pierre Schaeffer, his basics in the creation of sounds
is as important as the visual
part reaching a balance in between the fiction and reality,
poethics and narration which
go by line or without, inviting
us in a universe of perceptive
experiences and communicative situations.

Emblematic work of video
art of the 80’s. Bracket of a
moment of journey, where
transformed landscapes turn
back to be full member actors
of a story, which tells shortly
the possibility of encounter of
two beings.

The Antarctic has been discussed, observed, scrutinized,
analyzed, displaced. Questions about the landscape
lecture, movement lecture:
a journey of the memory,
in slow motion, how to get
finally the time of knowledge.

The light creates the movement. The black and white
function in this movie serves
as a developer material
Appearance, disappearance,
the rhythm of a respiration
makes us understand the
time passing by connects and
distracts our impressions.

At the height of the night a
young woman crosses the
immense, loud and mysterious city of Hong Kong. A scene
of her infancy reappears in
her mind, always the sameturned into red as an old photo
from the past, but just as
simple as life.

Art historian of media and
forms of audiovisual and
multimedia expansion, PhD in
Audiovisual Communication
Studies. Professor of Audiovisual Communication Studies
at the University of Barcelona
and Director of the European
project Vivid [Radical] Memory,
Culture Program 2000, 20062007. Co-coordinator for
European Project GAMA econtent Program (2007-2009).
Member of the Research
Laboratori Mitjans Interactiu
LMI (consolidated), CaixaForum Mediatheque consultant
and coordinator of activities,
Barcelona (1995-2007).

BIOGRAPHY
Lives and works in Madrid.
Audiovisual artist, her work was
exhibited in collective form in the
Museum Reina Sofía, the Circle
of Fine Art, , La Casa Encendida,
the Canal de Isabel II and the Cultural Centre Montehermoso, in
Spain; at the Espacio Fundación
Telefónica in Lima and Argentina,
the Museum of Modern Art of
Buenos Aires, at the Laboratorio
Arte Alameda in Mexico; the 798
Art District of Beijing, in China;
between others. She has participated in international festivals
such as FILE, Transitio MX and
Madrid Abierto.

This video is a cinematographical allegory about continuous
narratives: a big matrix which
contains vignettes which are
stories, personalities and possible outcomes, and such as
life it plaits a mixture of karma
and chaos. Each one, who is
free (or not) of seeing and living the story he chose.
Producing this video I
planned an interactive application which lets me move the
matrix in the three dimensions, and which alternates
the possible stories from
numerical series in combination with random numbers
and the proper interaction of
the user.
http://botellaalmar.net/whatever

BIOGRAPHY
Juan Carlos de la Parra is an
audiovisual artist interested
in narrative possibilities of
new media. He works mainly
with video, sound, net and the
word. He has got a degree in
computer science and a master of interactive systems.
He is a professor at several
universities and works as
multimedia producer as well.

In a weird atmosphere, the
images set out for an exciting
adventure. Do the images
represent the secret signals, a
mysterious journey or a silent
protest?
By means of guerrilla art
action, this project presented
the conversation between the
images and the city environment. This video incudes
statistics, symbols and the
Morse code in the background
music.
BIOGRAPHY
Wei-Ming Ho is engaged in research and creations of visual
art. He focuses on experimental video, media and video art.
He created this project with
experts in projector technology, electrical engineering,
lighting engineering. They use
high potential projector to
project the image in motion
with high mobility to display
stunning fireworks with the
impressive visual signs.

Hey good lookin’ is an animated shortfilm about someone
who ordered a puppet in a
box he has to assemble. After
he fixed his new friend he
became uncomfortable with
him and wrecked it up.
BIOGRAPHY
1979. He was born in Berlin.
1999-2005. Study of fine arts
at KHB Berlin.
since 2004 several group and
solo exhibitions in Germany
and at foreign countries.
Actually lives and works in
Berlin.

The video is based on a painting that I painted in 2009. The
painting portrait a fictiv person called Maria. In the video
this portrait becomes alive
and it is complaining about
the painting. Maria is critising
it beacause she thinks it is
not similar to her.

Memories are (always partial)
results of unequal battles.
The mass media through of
its news report and entertainment programs shows
us a pattern to organize
and read over the pieces of
their reality we supposedly
remember. What happened
in Peru in July of 2000? Why
were the Peruvians and those
who won outside the streets?
This would be the trailer of
the movie sponsored by Studio Ghibli of Japan ( responsable for sucessful movies
like the Seven Samurai or
Godzilla) to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the government’s great victory after 20
years in power.

BIOGRAPHY
Audiovisual artist. He studied
and taught in the Faculty of
Art at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Peru. His work
awarded different scholarship
and prize being selected by
movie, video and animation
festivals. Exhibitor in various
biennials of art and museums.

BIOGRAPHY
Degree in Fine Arts and Master in Interactive Audiovisual
Communication at the University of Barcelona. He is developing his work in Barcelona.
In 2009 realized Identity Code,
an individual exposition at the
Gallery Espace Ample.He had
performances at Matadero
(Madrid), at LA LABORAL (Gijón), at the MACBA, at the Joan
Miró Foundation, at Centre
d’Art Santa Mónica and at
the Espace Ample Gallery of
Barcelona, among others.

the characters are playing
with a ping-pong ball recreating weather conditions. By
focusing on normal everyday
actions that we practice
automatically in our everyday
life we are trying to re-think
these actions as a part of
our general study of human
behaviour. The interaction
between the characters
influenced by the hot lights
mimicking the sun, the fans
mimicking the storm- then
the detergent snow all
came together and became
an intense and humorous
experience.
BIOGRAPHY
Birds Production was formed
in 2009. Work has been
showed at several screenings
such as night vision, festival
in Copenhagen 2009, SPUN 3,
St. Cecilas Convent, curated by
video artist Rebecca
Gaffrney (NY, 2010). They
are also working on several
upcoming projects involving
both fashion and producing
music videos.

A keyboard player acts as a
puppeteer in an endless repetition of the same song. The
lyrics of the song, which are
referenced in the beginning,
set the mood- a darker undertone masked by Caribbean
lightness and the awkwardness of an intimate dance.
BIOGRAPHY
Avi Krispin (Israel, 1980) moved
to the Netherlands in 2002
and completed her bachelor
and masters degrees at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2006)
and the Sandberg Institute
(2008) respectively. She works
with short films, videos, video
installations, and photography.
She attended the prestigious
artist residency Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, was nominated
for the ISMAF award, and
CJP award and won the AIAS
prize of honor in 2006. She
has exhibited internationally,
and at festivals including the
23rd Kassel Documentary
Film & Video Festival and the
Moya Museum of Young Art
in Vienna.

BA in Art History, Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid. Master
of Philosophy, UNED. For eleven years she worked for the
National Museum Art Center
Reina Sofia, Madrid. From
1995 to 2001. Artistic Director
of the Palacio de Velázquez
and Palacio de Cristal. In 2002
she was curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the Biennial of
Sao Paulo.
Curator of the project SiciliaMorente Museum Frans Hals
in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Curator in Apexart
residence, New York. For two
years she directs the Atlantic
Center of Modern Art, CAAM,
Canary Islands, Spain. (20042006).
Since 2007 she creates
the platform for research,
production and publication
of contemporary art projects:
INVISIBLE MUSEUM.

In 1981 she had her first exhibition. She promotes various
collective projects, the Salón
de Otoño, ARTIC magazine, etc.
The pictorial path begins
with architecture as an urban
culture representation. The
labyrinth as a metaphor for
the city, giving way to another
significant area: the cavity (la cavitat). This no place
identifies as an image of their
own identity. In the 2002 she
presents the video installation 2 rooms with views (2
habitaciones con vistas) in the
Santa Monica Art Center of
Barcelona. Francesca works
with painting, video art and
video installation.
Actually she is the Spanish Union of Visual Artists
president.

Dermis P. León is an art
critic and independent curator
based in Madrid. Her practice
and current research explores
the relationship between Latin
America, Europe and Middle
Eastern artists, related to the
aesthetics of the fragility and
the process, identity, gender,
mobility and immigration.
BA in Art History from the
University of La Habana and
graduated in Master of The
Center for Curatorial Studies,
Bard College, NY is founder of
The Curatorial Bureau.

Kamen Nedev is a cultural
producer, independent curator, and writer.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and
based in Madrid, Nedev has
curated exhibitions such as
Terraplane Blues, (La Casa
Encendida, Madrid, 2006), and
worked in projects such as
Ganarse la vida (Intermediae,
Madrid, 2006-2007), or (n-1)
(Liquidación Total, Madrid,
2008), and has taken part in
a number of collectives and
initiatives of independent cultural production, such as Circo
Interior Bruto (Madrid, 19992005), La Red de Lavapiés
(1998-2004), the C.A.S.I.T.A.
collective (2006-2008), or
Prisma (2010- ), among others.

History (1997) and Audiovisual
Comunication Graduate (2006),
he studied also Exhibition
Curatoring and Archive Film
Preservation.
During ten years works as a
university teacher, researcher,
writer, curator, documentary
filmmaker, and in making film
literacy projects. Nowadays
is focused as a film&video
curator, his works have been
seen in Berlin’s Kunst Werke,
CaixaForum, La Pedrera, or
Cervantes Institut of Tel Aviv.
His last program, a spanish
videocreation retrospective,
will be on world tour by Instituto Cervantes in 2011.
He is co-founder of REC
International Film Festival of
Tarragona in 2001, and his
director and main programmer since 2005.

Angie Bonino. She is the
first woman involved in new
media in Peru. Her work is
multidisciplinary, using the
audiovisual, activism, installation and internet platform.
For several years she devoted
herself to research and curator of the Peruvian artists in
the International Festival of
Electronic Art in Lima. Graphic
designer and artist of Fine
Arts of Peru, Master in Interactive Systems for audiovisual
Mecad Ramon Llull University
in Barcelona, Spain, Master in
LAMP Free Software Systems
grant from the European community. Write in publications,
and works as an artist, and
researcher of art with new
technologies. Director of VIDEOAKT International Videoart
biennial.

WWVF initiated in 1975 has
as its main goal the exhibition
and production contemporary
media art. Through the years
their have been presented
numerous exhibitions, screenings, seminars, festivals and
debates WWVF has also initiated the commission of new
works by various international
artists Over the years an extensive collection was formed
consisting of videotapes and
installations. This collection
is currently being catalogued
and digitized. At present
WWVF’s activities are focused
on developing a 360 Degree
Panorama, a series of largescreen video projections for
public spaces, and the opening up of the collection for
exhibitions and screenings.

Adventure Center is informed
by the gradual shift in the
commercial and cultural
modes of area in the centre
of Cape Town. The images
are composed of photograph of the actual location
transformed through and by
Alexander’s living sculptures.
Adventure Centre is part of
the unSUNg CITY project as
presented in Johannesburg
and Amsterdam. Lives and
works in Cape Town, South
Africa.

In Car Park Procession we see
Kentridge’s drawings for projection, consisting of cars, a
witch with her broom , a coffeepot. They march from left
to right: entering the screen
and disappearing. Kentrigde
conceived a procession for a
car park. The bright colours
you see at the beginning of
the video, as the sunlight
soap and the candles, are
objects purchased from street
merchants in the vicinity of
the car park where the project
originally happened.
Car Park Procession is part of
the unSUNg CITY project as
presented in Johannesburg
and Amsterdam. Lives and
works in Johannesburg, South
Africa.

Parte del unSUNg CITY project
as presented in Johannesburg
and Amsterdam.

Part of the unSUNg CITY
project as presented in Johannesburg and Amsterdam.

In Neptune’s Choice Eder
Santos explores and navigates the present and the
past of Amsterdam. With
lush images, elliptical text and
a haunting sound collage, this
poetic work defines Amsterdam through its historical
and contemporary relation
to water and it’s constant
flux of immigration. Santos
celebrates the rhythm and
routines of the city, visualizing reflection from the water
surface.

CONCEPTO
The Israel-Palestine conflict
has mediated the relations
of the Middle East with the
West. Recently the war in Iraq,
the crusade against terrorism
and the spread of militant
Islam, have added to the
already complex vision of the
territory, made by the images
and news media. The selected
videos returne the story told
from the Another perspective.
THE CURATORIAL BUREAU
is a group of international
partners based in Madrid. Dedicated to curatorial projects and to create a
platform for research about
artistic creation and cultural
dynamics processes through
seminars and nationally and
internationally events. CB
is represented by Dennis P.
Leon, curator and art critic.

BIOGRAPHY
Dermis P. León is an art
critic and independent curator
based in Madrid. Her practice
and current research explores
the relationship between Latin America, Europe and Middle
Eastern artists, related to the
aesthetics of the fragility and
the process, identity, gender,
mobility and immigration.
BA in Art History from the
University of La Habana and
graduated in Master of The
Center for Curatorial Studies,
Bard College, NY, EE.UU.

Born in El Minya (Upper
Egypt), completed a degree in
Art Education in 2005. With
its first series of animation
projects, received an award
at the Salón de la Juventud 2007. Exhibited at the
Biennale BJCM in Bari, Italy
(2008), and participated in the
Salzburg Summer Academy.
Abdelkarim is interested in
collaborative work across web
and publications.

There are many moments
in the life of the person in
wich he is examined, either
under the same rules or
based on culture and laws of
the surrounding community
concerning religion, customs
and concepts. We are always
under consideration and
depending on these rules we
are accepted or rejected. Who
develops these standards and
by what right?.

Al Fadhil was born in Iraq in
1954. Graduate in the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad,
began his artistic practice
in the ‘80s, after completing studies at the Academy
of Fine Arts in Florence. His
work is characterized by the
use of various media and
openly moves between painting, construction of objects,
photographs, videos and performances. He participated
in solo and group exhibitions
in international events.
Currently living and working
in Lugano, Switzerland and
Berlin.
BUSH HERE is a video taken
from a recording made by
pilots in Iraq war.
At night, in the sky of a red
zone, always there is something special: two pilots, in
order to overcome the problem, play with his Top Gun.
In this video, the viewer is
invited to enter in the cockpit
or imagine sitting in a chair
for people with disabilities, to
see for themselves what kind
of game is played.

Khaled Hafez (Cairo, Egypt
1963). He earned an MFA in
new media and digital arts in
the Transart Institute (New
York, USA) and the Danube
University Krems (Austria).
His work encompasses painting, installation, photography
and video and has been
widely exhibited in Europe’s
museums and the Dakar Biennial 2004 and 2006 (prize),
the Singapore Biennale 2006,
Sharjah Biennial 2007 (prize),
Biennial Thessaloniki, 2009.
He was invited to Manifesta
8, Murcia, Saatchi Gallery and
the Tate Modern, Queens
Museum and the New Museum NY.
Video single channel, 2009
2 & 3-D animation, images
taken from internet, video
& music My art projects are
made up of six important aspects: time, past and present,
the superhero or model, the
recycling process of contemporary visual images in their
kinetic and static forms, and
sacred values against the
globalization consumerism.
Today this combined formula
creates an Egyptian hybrid
identity I’ve seen in development during the last two
decades of my creative work.

Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS) is a non-profit
production unit of critic and
cultural art. CPS operates as a
network oof artists, curators
and thinkers who have been
collaborating since 2004 in
the organization, production
and circulation of film and
video festivals, art exhibitions, television and radio
programs, fiction and political
documentaries. CPS has been
one of collectives that curated
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain
2010-2011.
MOBILE WAR ZONES
documents the tense border
between Israel and Lebanon
a few months before the full
scale of events in the summer
of 2006. The artists Larissa
Sansour and Khaled Ramadan
prepared to be in the respective borders of Palestine and
Lebanon. Each of them faced
difficulties, either because
of Israeli checkpoints in occupied Palestine, or through
the territories of Hezbollah in
Lebanon.

Larissa Sansour born in Jerusalem in 1973. She studied
Fine Arts in Copenhagen, London and New York. Exhibiting
in galleries, museums and
international film festivals.
Has been invited to the Busan
Biennale in Korea, the Third
Guangzhou Triennial in China,
PhotoCairo4 in Egypt and the
Istanbul Biennial. Her short
film A Space Exodus was
nominated for Best Short at
the Dubai International Film
Festival. (2009). The same
year, his graphic novel The
Novel of Nonel and Vovel in collaboration with Oreet
Ashery - was launched at the
Tate Modern, Britain, and the
Brooklyn Museum, USA.
RUN LARA RUN addresses
the issue of identity and belonging. The film explores the
idea of displaced identities,
typical of societies that have
undergone political turmoil,
and their diasporas. Cultural
hybridity is also called into
question.

IDENTITY How do we see us?
How do we feel? Are we like
that? Do we see like that? Do
Questions answered, asking
for many national artists in
six videos whose duration
oscillate between two and six
minutes each
BIOGRAPHY
Actor, teacher, theater director and television producer.
For over 25 years related
to mass media, he worked
as journalist in the U.S. for
the texas sun for which she
received an award in 2005.
He took part in the curatorship in new media thanks to a
workshop for the outstanding
Peruvian artist Angie Bonino
- Based in Barcelona, Spain who came to dictate through
the Cultural Center of Spain
and the Fundación Telefónica
in Peru. Currently he is doing
a research about the relationship of the theater with new
media.

Bye Bye July (Adiós a Julio).
July is the month of the
mother-country and houses
shine plumaged to greet and
recognize us, for a month
each year, as proud Peruvians.
Starting from this image we
try to think about the notions
of patriotism so trivial, false
and imposed like this old habit
to greet the mother-country in
a place like Perú: multicultural,
rootless, injust, syncretic and
broken. July is over, protocol
is over, let’s keep the washed,
wave and blessed flags.
BIOGRAPHY
Individual expositions: The
smile of Ekeko (La Sonrisa del
Ekeko) (2007) and Between
flowers and accidents (Entre
Flores e Infortunios) (2006) besides collective expo in and out
of Perú. Major awards: First
Finalist, Contest Arte en Libertad, organized by MAPFRE
CIA. De Seguros y Mención
Honrosa, National Contest
of the International Year of
Potato. Personal Projects:
Net-Performance Today my
duty has been... (Hoy mi deber
fue, (2010), expositions: Purple
in soul (Morada del Alma)
(2010) in the Yuyachkanin
Theater, La Sonrisa del Ekeko
(2007) 80m2 Gallery and Entre
Flores e Infortunios (2006) in
the CC. Ricardo Palma.

Terrorist group Sendero Luminoso, responsable in Perú
of many and terrible crimes
against humanity during the
last decades of XX century.
They infiltrate in schools and
universities to spread their
ideology among young people, as part of a subversive
strategy.
MILITAR SCHOOL (Escuela
militar), won the award as
the best national animation
in Festianima 2008, the first
award in animation in the III
International Festival of short
films of Cusco. The second
award in Animation Andean
Contest. It was selected for
the III Interamerican Biennal
of Videoart of BID.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Lima; Perú, 6 February 1976. He graduated at
the Faculty of Arts Catolic
University.

CITY OF RECYCLING (La
Ciudad del Reciclaje), the river
Rimac is a metaphor to create images based on Victoria
Guerrero’s poem. As it is an
unfinisherd diary, designs appear in series, revealing with
his stroke, family and social
memories of the town of
Lima in the last years, in wich
hostility, fun and nostalgia
live.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1978, Lima. She studied Bellas Artes in Pontificia
Universidad Católica of Perú.

SUBJECTION LETTERS (Cartas
de Sujeción). This video is my
first approach to a theme of
revaluation of women, using
as a starting point one of
Silvia Santisteban Rocio’s
poems: Subjection Letters,
which describes a bit the
women’s situation during
the armed conflict in the 80s
in Peru. This video attempts
to create an atmosphere
of labyrinth without exit
and color, where this single
woman’s image is multiplied
and fragmented at different
times of the preparation or
make up to accomplish an
humiliation act.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Lima, Perú. Eduardo
Menendez, artist-designeres.
In 2001, he left painting
and started to work with
video and sound involving interactive elements.
After this he constituted
Santos Media (2004), a
visual artists, designers and
musicians collective, which
create audiovisuals settings
as digital vaudervilles. The
transdisciplinarity and his
big interest in technology in
artistic projects, bring him to
Parsons (NY), to the program
of the master in Design and
Technology.

Altered States (Estados Alterados). Made a delicious revenge
in digital photomontage style.
Updating stereotypes, he
exchanged brutally roles of
social actors: characters of
A class are assimilated in D
segment or less of it ... and
vice versa. The expression of
a text of 1928, prolgue of 7
interpretative essays about
the Peruvian reality by Jose
Carlos Mariategui, delivered in
Quechua, without subtitles. In
this way he forced his loved
audience to listen and enjoy a
delicious language ... even now
despised in his own country of
origin: Perú.

BIOGRAPHY
From 1998 to 2001he was
involved in the initial and training events of video art in Peru,
in collaboration and interaction
with: MUTA artefacto interactivo multiuso, ATA Alta Tecnología Andina, Centro Cultural
de España, Medios Nómades
y Aloardí. He is the founding
member of DACP, Artistic and
Cultural Development in Perù
(Lima, 2001 - 2008), a collective of artists who produced
and promoted internationally
digital works of Peruvian artists, where he looked after the
exhibition of Peruvian video art
in the VII Salón de Arte Digital,
La Habana 2005.

THE BRIDE (La Novia). Video
for public space intervention,
it’s a part of the performance
project Improving the breed
(Mejorando la raza) that, starting from a re-reading of artist’s
autobiographical material
offers a critical look at the construction of identity in Perú.

BIOGRAPHY
She studied Performing Arts
and Dance at the Pontificia
Universidad Católica of Peru.
Her work includes performance
and video art and has been
featured in various art events
in Peru, Argentina and Spain.
Along with other local artists,
she joins Book of Anatomy a
space for experimentation and
research about the body and
performance. She collaborated
with the Yuyachkani group
in stage projects for alternative spaces. She conducted
a research stay in the Virtual
Archive of Performing Arts in
Spain and is currently collaborating with them.

THE BIENNIAL OF VIDEO AND
MEDIAL ARTS is the only systematic event in Chile since
1993 which makes a work of
diffusion of artistic works and
projects in video format and
other electronic media and
interactive. Since its inception
has promoted the experimental work of artists from the
region, fostering the exchange
with their international peers
to create a space for debate
and reflection about contemporary art and digital culture.

BIOGRAPHY
Graduated in Aesthetics,
Masters in Curating of Art
and New Media in MECAD.
Currently pursues a doctorate
in Image and Technology, University of Barcelona. She work
in Spain and Chile as teacher,
curator and researcher in art
and new media. Since 2005 is
part of the committee of the
Biennial of Video and media
arts Santiago de Chile.

Eiffel tower is slowly sinking
into the Parisian postcard; a
mysterious package forgotten in a New York’s station;
the shot that comes back in
its eternal return to batter
down the gunman; a conversation where the words have
ceded their protagonism to
the gestures. The different selected works converge in in the
performative experimentation
of body and objects through
the audio-visual, moving away
from narrative structures or
effective solutions. The artists
selected for this exhibition
work skirting the fragility
of the boundaries between
social references, the collective
imaginary over-coded by social
media and its dissipation in
individuality.

The image of the Eiffel Tower
over coded by history and
tourism, disappears from the
imagined postal, nullifying
slowly its mythical reading as
an emblematic city. Ramírez
invites us to reflect about the
relationship landscape-territory-history, where the collective
imaginary is labile in front to
the loss of their icons.

BIOGRAPHY
Borns in Santiago de Chile in
1979. He is an Audiovisual
Communicator majoring in
Film, Arcos Institute, Santiago,
Chile, and a Masters in Contemporary Art and New Media
in the Studio National Des Arts
Contemporains, Le Fresnoy,
France. His work rounds the
relationship with landscape,
daily life and historical and
subjective memory.

The video is a look into the
anti-terrorist security system
present in the city of New York.
Grum creates a copy of a suspicious box, an image used in
the 2010 campaign of the MTA
(Metropolitan Transportation
Authority). It is introduced into
the transport system in order
to activate the security systems and services lost of the
institution. Thus, Grum makes
artistic codes sneaks and
crosses with the advertising
codes and state regulations for
control and surveillance.
BIOGRAPHY
Santiago de Chile, 1977.
His work is done through
video, sculpture, drawing and
installation. He exhibited in
the majors museums and
galleries in his country and
in such cities as New York,
Paris, Beijing, Berlin, Medellin
and Sao Paulo, among others.
Within his samples highlights
the participation in the Beijing
Biennale, Triennale de Chile,
the Transmediale festival in
Berlin and the project Artistas
en Latinoamérica.

The SILENCE video aims
to explore the nonverbal
language in the dialogue between two people. From the
low moments of silence to
listen the other; the gestures
of reaction in the interlocutor;
the mimic of reflections from
one who waits his turn to
speak; even milder intervals
and pauses are revealing the
complex choreography of the
face designed by personal
subjectivity and learned social
codes.
BIOGRAPHY
Visual artist, born in Paraguay. Since 1997, using video
and its shifts to the video
installation and video performance as a working tool.
She participated in the Film
and Video Festival de Valdivia
and the Biennial of Video and
New Media in their last five
releases in the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Santiago
de Chile. Between 2008 and
2009 she lived and worked in
Taipei, Taiwan. Her last performance projects in public
space (SCL 2110) explored the
territories of social interaction of citizens and their particular languages to interact
with others.

Midiendo el Ser does not tell
a story, but invites the viewer
to participate in a series of
short scenes that are repeated,
weaving a web of plastic
austerity where prosaic objects
will become delirious and
abstract at once.

BIOGRAPHY
Chile, 1973. He studied Fine
Arts and Film at Santiago. In
late 1999 moving to Barcelona,
Spain. He filmed between 2002
and 2010 twelve short films
always using the super 8mm
format and participated in a
few film festivals around the
world in such places as New
York, Cairo, Rome or Arica. In
his works explores the pursuit
of abstract language in audiovisual.

VIDEOBRASIL FESTIVAL
The SESC_Videobrasil Festival
has become established as
an international reference for
expressions of contemporary
art from the South. The first
edition of Videobrasil was held
in 1983, bringing together
a trailblazing generation of
national artists and documentary and video makers.
In the years that ensued, the
competitive exhibition turned
to mapping electronic art
from the geopolitical South of
the globe, and accompanied
the fast-paced evolution
of electronic media as they
became part of contemporary
production. In the 2000-2009
decade the Festival established its curatorial character.
Beginning with the 13th
edition, the programme was
divided into thematic sections
derived from observation of
contemporary issues and
trends, such as Performance
(2005). The 17th International
Contemporary Art Festival
SESC_Videobrasil will be held
in September and October
2011. Aligned with the nature

of contemporary artistic
practices, the new competitive exhibition expands
its ability to soak in diverse
manifestations, such as video,
installations, performances,
book-objects, and other artistic experiments.
VIDEOBRASIL
RETROSPECTIVE
Videobrasil Retrospective
comprises six video works
that were awarded by the
Festival in years spanning
from 2003 to 2007. Together,
they create a small but representative sample of the talent
emerging from different regions of the geopolitical South
of the globe, which has been
the focus of the Festival since
the 1990’s. Produced in Brazil,
Peru, Argentina, Lebanon
and Zimbabwe, these artworks are also close in their
dynamic, intense approach of
narrative, often inspired by
the musical score.

BIOGRAPHY
Solange Oliveira Farkas is an
art curator with an international career spanning twenty-five years. She has created
the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, a reference for the art
production of the Southern
regions od the world. She has
also organized a number of
important exhibitions both
in Brazil and abroad. Among
them, the Pan-African Exhibition of Contemporary Art
(Salvador, 2005); La Mirada
Discreta: Marcel Odenbach &
Robert Cahen (Buenos Aires,

2006); Roteiro Amarrado
(CCBB Rio de Janeiro, 2010)
Suspensão e Fluidez (ARCO,
Madri, 2007), both centered
on the work of Brazilian artist
Eder Santos; Sophie Calle –
Take Care of Yourself (São
Paulo and Salvador, 2009).
Between 2007 and 2010, she
served as director and chief
curator of the Museum of
Modern Art of Bahia, promoting exhibitions of Brazilian
and international artists,
including Chelpa Ferro, Daniel
Senise, Thomas Farkas, Mario
Cravo Neto, Sophie Calle and
Joseph Beuys. Farkas is also
winner of the Sergio Motta
Hors Concours Award (2004),
jury member for the Nam
June Paik Award in Germany,
board member at Escola São
Paulo. As the head of Associação Cultural Videobrasil,
she is currently involved in
the production of the 17th
International Contemporary
Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil.
Due in September 2011, the
Festival features the largest
exhibition of Olafur Eliasson’s
works ever presented in Latin
America.

16TH VIDEOBRASIL
Cold and emptied, the city of
São Paulo becomes a football
pitch, which turns to floodplain,
which becomes the stage for
football practice. A work of
video dance about territories,
frontiers, and the occupation of
public space.
BIOGRAPHY
Twelve years ago, one visual
artist and nine architecture
students (eight from the
University of São Paulo and
one from the Armando Alvares
Penteado Foundation) created
a common space in which to
do college work, throw parties,
develop artistic projects, and
discuss matters related to the
moment that they were going
through. The multiplicity of
identities seeking the same
objectives gave birth to BijaRi,
a collective characterized by
the notion of unity in diversity
since its early days.

A montage on the author’s
experience as a white youth
living in Zimbabwe during
the 1990s. A song by the
Zimbabwean singer Rozalla,
known as the Queen of Rave,
enfolds two conflicting realities: Whites dance as Negroes
demonstrate.

BIOGRAPHY
Dan Halter was born in
Harare, Zimbabwe in 1977.
He left Zimbabwe after his A’
Levels
and completed a one year
foundation art course at
the Schüle für Gestaltung in
Zürich, Switzerland. After this
he relocated to South Africa
where in 2001, he graduated
from the Michaelis School of
fine Art at the University of
Cape Town with a BA (FA).
He had his first solo show
at João Ferreira Gallery in
Cape Town titled Take Me
to Your Leader in 2006. He
has taken part in numerous
group shows including Second to None at South African
National Gallery and the Next
Wave Festival in Melbourne,
Australia in 2006. He teaches
part time in Videography at
the Michaelis School of Fine
Art, UCT.

16TH VIDEOBRASIL
A video about a Lebanese
woman who does not want
to talk about war. Taking
this as her premise, she assumes an ironic discourse,
but cannot shake the avoided
theme. The voice substituted
by subtitles leaves space for
silence, in which we can hear
Rawane’s footsteps.

BIOGRAPHY
At twenty-three years of age,
after concluding a painting
course at the Lebanese University, in 2001, Mounira Al
Solh decided that it was time
to leave behind the extreme
familiarity she had acquired
with Beirut, and left to study
fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academie, in Amsterdam. Her
choice of the Dutch school
was based more on the
empathy that she felt for the
students at the institution
They were free and their
sense of humor appealed
to me than on academic or
professional reasons.

15TH VIDEOBRASIL
A travelling shot follows a
couple that goes separate
ways after an argument. She
is decided not to make up,
while he regrets what has
happened.
BIOGRAPHY
The determination to take
electronic media to the edge
of technical capacity-in order
to realize instigating visual
ideas and move indifferent
viewers-is the trademark of
the art of Federico Lamas
from Argentina (Buenos
Aires, 1979). Involving cinema,
theater, graphic arts, and
the pop/electronic realm, his
work stems from peculiar
arrangements of scenic and
narrative elements, aimed at
inverting expectations and
giving a feel of discovery.
With stated intention, the
quest for the new ranges
from narrative structure
to visual appearance, from
directing to soundtrack, from
concept to reality. Altering
frames’ shape and limits-be
it screen or stage setting-is a
recurring practice, as is giving
up words in favor of the eloquence of silence and image.

In this experimental collage,
nature cannot escape contamination by the neuroses
of the residents of large cities.
Stressed out shrubs on the
pavement scream, shudder,
and moan to passers-by, as if
absorbing their ill feelings and
undisguised sadness.

BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Peru,
1976) studied photography and
humanities in Lima and visual
arts in Mexico. He has exhibited videos, animation, drawings,
and paintings in Madrid, São
Paulo, Milan, and Geneva. He
was among the prizewinners
at the 2005 Biennial of Short
Films in Mexico City, where he
lives and works.

14TH VIDEOBRASIL
Rosario, Argentina, March
25th, 2002. About 400 people
slaughtered cows that minutes before had spread on
the asphalt when the truck
they were being transported
in fell down.
BIOGRAPHY
Gabriela Golder is a videomaker. She made the
studies in the Film University
of Buenos Aires. She made
the post degree studies in
Spain, in the University of
Santiago de Compostela.
In 1999-2000 she was in
Paris, with a fellowship of the
French government, making
a master in HYPERMIDIA.In
1998 she was in residency at
the Banff Centre in Alberta,
Canada and in 1996 and 2000
in the CICV Pierre Schaffer in
France. Since October 2002,
she is at the KHM (Köln,
Germany) developing a video
installation project.

Wit, freshness, intelligence
and humor are the main
ingredients of the videos (or
shorts) of Siminiani León,
an excellent storyteller and
of concepts. His strategy is
to assemble and disassemble images and arguments,
dosing personal experiences
with crazy ideas, putting
together piece by piece its
particular vital mechanism.
He knows very well the golden
rule of the trickster (as every
narrator): the invention had
to contain some truth to
sustain. His magic, the secret
of his work, is that he apparently reveals or simplifies but
actually he complicates it, so
what looks like being simple,
infact it isn’t , all his works are
feather pieces about heavy
subjects.

BIOGRAPHY
Elías León Siminiani studied
Spanish philology and
film directing at Columbia
University, New York. He
works for TV (directing and
producing), fiction filmmaking
and video creation. Between
fiction films highlights Dos
más, Best Drama in the
Emmy of 2002 for students,
Best Latin Director 2002
DGA Students Awards USA
and Audience Award for the
Spanish version; Archipiélago,
Jury Awards, Best Screenplay,
Audience Award (Columbia
University 2003) and finalist
for the Latin Filmmakers
Showcase 04 of Sundance
Channel; Ludoterapia, Best
Short Film in Europe Cinema
2007. In non-fiction series
of micro-documentary
highlights Conceptos Clave
del Mundo Moderno, whose
its first three installments (La
Oficina, El permiso y Digital)
received more than 50 international awards and his work
as browser of a hybrid format
with pieces such as Zoom
(nominated Best Picture
Notodofolmfest 05) or the
diptych Límites for the collective project Miradas al límite
08 (Artium - NEFF).

A story told with voiceover by
the alleged space objects and
protagonists pictures. The
sentimental story of Antonio
and Pilar, who coming from
different social classes and
influenced by an article of El
País about Spanish change
of sex attitudes, create PENIS
(another love story).

The last episode of the video
series Key Concepts in the
modern era is a subjective audiovisual essay about the ideas
of work and rest in the modern
era, for which it is necessary to
transit between distant places
where the individual performs
both practices, always under
the prism of the American
dream.

A woman and a man with a
camera in the desert: a tale
of love and heartbreak. In the
first part Siminiani builds a
formal device that wins and
convince the viewer, while in
the second it disturbs him
when he converts the process of dismantling all that
device, in the narrative motif.

It’s a alleged making off
that reveals the filmmaker’s attempts to sell
a film, a compendium of
direct instructions on how
to submit pictures and how
to orient their meaning. The
film is part of a rapture. I feel
empty, I shake my life, I read
Pasolini, I listen the Queen, I
buy boxes, I pack my stuff, get
into a storage room, I leave
my home and I go to India as
a backpacker. Let’s find.

MONOGRAPHYC OF FELIPE
ORTEGA REGALADO
VideoArtWorld is an international organization focused
on establishing the art value,
based on technology and
its historical significance. It
develops online resources,
exhibitions, publications,
conferences and symposiums
in various cities, and it joins
together a large number of
curators, critics, collectors,
gallery owners and other
professionals interested in
implementing good practices
in the sector.

CRYPTOGRAPHIES
(CRIPTOGRAFÍAS) –
The videos selection presented in Videoakt belong to
a larger work, grouped under
the generic title of Cryptographies, and where the author
investigates space, light, body
and soul. It is a hybrid work
about and from painting, as
painting expands to photography and video.His painting
works’ limits expand indefinitely in the videographic, in
fact the picture is that in wich
each of the videos scenes is
focused. Consider that the

frame of the painting puts
an end to it, while the screen
acts as a kind of peephole
that let us to see not only a
part of the work, but it may
expands beyond its limits. The
framing of the camera lens
supposes a potential mobility
of the framework and even
the break of it. As I said, we
can go further, breaking once
again with the Renaissance
window, going beyond the
break that was conducted in
late nineteenth century and
especially in the Vanguards.
The painting, with its multiple
inclusion, extends limits of its
traditional place. It moves on
the ground of all and defines
by a combination of inclusions, in an expanded field.
BIOGRAPHY
Felipe Ortega Regalado.His
works are allegories, continued metaphors, macerated
encodings in a plastic vocation debugged and developed
in different supports. He finds
forms, compositions and stories wich affirm the existence,
which translate this world
so strange, so elusive and
opaque. In this video works
sequence, he persues give action to the paint, leading it in
a performative context.
COMISARY BIOGRAPHY
PhD in Art History. Critic and
independent curator. He is a
member of the Spanish Institute of Contemporary Art.
He did his specialization in
capcMusée Bordeaux.
Art.es correspondent in Andalusia, has published books
about contemporary art and

articles in various media.
Currently, he coordinates the
scheduling of La Nave Spacial.
Sevilla. (www.lanavespacial.es)
He is the creator, with Rubén
Barroso, of ARS ET LABORA,
plataform of research and
reflexion about the jobs in art.

LIMINALB
Is an organization for the
contemporary art interdisciplinary promotion and the
international exchange. It has
official headquarters in Barcelona and is active since 2006.
It promotes contemporary art
through curatorial projects, as
well as workshops, residencies and conferences.

5# LIMINALB
The selection consists of the
video work of the five best
international artists represented by LiminalB. Them videos are acute insights, rapid
remarks or forceful reflections
expressed in a crystalline
language, which make use of
powerful images and a stunning picture. Balanced mix of
images, words and sounds.

BIOGRAPHY
Federica Matelli (Italy) 1977.
She graduated in Aesthetic
Philosophy and Theory of
Contemporary Art (University
of Pisa). Master in Curatorial
and Cultural Practices in Art
and New Media (Universitat

In an empty space, where
people wake up like every
day, breaks an inert body. The
game provokes curiosity in
the characters, causing the
emergence and movement
between species. Dreamer and
dream merge in space and in
the narrative. How do we think
a deer?

BIOGRAPHY
Plastic and video artist. Graduated in the Basque Country
University (2003). Specialized
in audiovisual production and
animation (Barcelona). National Award INJUVE of Plastic
Arts (2008). She combines her
personal experience in visual
arts and artistic teaching with
performing arts projects.

abra -Cracks in the ground by
the effect of earthquakes.
sis - Action, formation process.
BIOGRAPHY
Maya Watanabe (Lima, 1983).
Lives and works in Madrid.
Visual artist, has exhibited
her works in many institutions in Latin America, Europe
and Asia, few of them are the
Reina Sofia Museum and the
Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires), among others. She
has participated in important
international festivals. Injuve
Award 2009 and Passport to
an Artist 2008. She is part of
Young Artists Archive, Matadero Madrid.

BIOGRAFPHY
Noemi Sjöberg, Swedish of
Spanish mother. Living in
France since 17 years, she has
made 13 videos and 5 audiovisual installations exhibited
in many galleries, festivals
and museums. Her videos are
distributed by Heure Exquise!
and Filmform.

Energy Conversion Efficiency,
is part of My Double Life,
video installation composed
by various diptyches. Each
person divides his life into a
profession to survive and real
abilities, not bundled with his
work. Diptychs show the life’s
daily skizofrenia of people
ranging between need and
passion, a work world and
domestic world.
BIOGRAPHY
The approach to her work is
the same as a scientist. A
discrepancy detected during
the procedure, or in the structure, requires to formulate
a hypothesis to explain the
complication in question,
or if it’s possible, to put is a
solution to the problem. Then
she determines the method
needs to get the study on,
and lines of research.

In this sequence of videos we
attend the contraposition of
different kinds of life form:
the artificial represented by
the universe of computer apparently cold and somewhat
chaotic, but it’s extensively
visual in a poetic way. Where
the presence / absence of
the human subject doesn’t
interfere in its existence , with
its form, light, sound and its
intern communication; in front
of the sphere of a biologycal
life contemplating in The oncoming water, with its animal
forms of an almost impossible geometry, in movement
and the flow of vapor in a
temporal continuous- static
state, meanwhile attending an
impossible crystalline triangulation under the changeable
solar light.

BIOGRAPHY
Marcello Mercado (1963).
Artist born in 1963, is italian - argentine and lives in
Köln / Brühl, Germany. He
works interdisciplinary with
paintings, videoart, bioart,
objects, installations, robotics,
soundart and netprojects.
Mercado´s work is based
on a relationship between
biology, technology and art.

He was Fellow between
1996 -1997 at The John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, The Rockefeller
Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation; and between
1999-2001 at The Academy
of Media Arts Köln. Germany.
His works has been exhibited
at the Museum Ludwig Köln;
ZKM Karlsruhe; Museo Nacional y Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía Madrid; La Caixa Forum,
Barcelona; Arco Madrid; Miami
Basel; Art Cologne; Museo
de Arte Moderno de Buenos
Aires, etc
BIO OF THE CURATOR
Ricardo Iglesias degree in the
faculty of Philosophy and
Letters at the U.A.M (Madrid)
continued his studies in the
world of creative digital media. Currently he gives classes
in Interactive Systems in the
Faculty of Fine Arts at the UB,
where he realizes his doctoral
thesis. His work centers on
the investigation and application of new technologies in
the field of art from aspects
of reactive installations with
robotic elements, videos,
sounds and web systems.

From 2007 Homesession is
engaged in curator projects,
scholarship and programs for
artistic creation and residance
in Barcelona. Looking at the
international and catalan
emergent set, Jérôme Lefaure
and Olivier Collet, project
animators, propose expositive
experiments and cooperations
starting in the original place
of life converting it in a semipublic space. The objectives of
their outstanding initiative are
creating new formats, investigating the limints of artistic
productions and discovering
new talents.

There’s a sunrise in some place
and the inhabitants of the
district are shown without any
other motivation than leaving
home. In this video-musical
piece, cars behave like notes
and moviments, wich can be
the introduction or a trail of a
possible drama, or simply the
beginning of a common day.
BIOGRAPHY
Fito Conesa (Carthage 1980)
centers his work on so invisible
aspects which change or structure every kind of transcendent event. The need to find an
order in everything brings him
to create links of different nature between image fact and
musical event, such as a magic
spell or a thin moviment to
re-locate reality. A brave look
can be the beginning of a very
good film and with the note E
(Mi) out of time can start the
best of the dramas, on video or
paper or in real life.

Le Tournis is a 2 :30 minute
looped video showing an
interior space (the artist’s studio) from a central
point of view . The camera
continually revolves on itself,
scanning the space at high
speed. In this repetitive 360°
panorama, an event arises.
Progressively, at the top of
the screen, a slight sparkling
appears. Then something
falls. We then identify,
gradually, that a multitude of
mirrors come crashing to the
ground.
BIOGRAPHY
Gwenaël Bélanger was born
in Rimouski, Quebec in 1975.
He lives and works in Montréal (Canada).
Gwenael Belanger’s works,
focusing on the mediums
of photography, video and
installation, are based on a
critical observation of our
daily reality and of the inherent simplicity in things. For
Bélanger, the banal and the
common hide some sort of
innate nucleus of significance
which is simply awaiting to be
uncovered - and thus offers
us, with a touch of irony, a
re-evaluation of what is presented to us at first glance.

1 -I think we all dream to see
a serious episode, someday.
It never happens, that kind of
things, so, when it’s there, we
take a sit and we get ready, we
keep our eyes wide open to
enjoy the show. We know that
something rare and intense is
about to happen. It’s too good
to pass up, too exciting to try
to stop it. We just hope not to
be the object of the drama, but
to be able to watch, to live the
drama.

BIOGRAPHY
Graduated from the Paris Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Arts
Décoratifs ENSAD (National
School for Decorative Arts) and
from the Paris School of Fine
Arts. He works mainly with
photography, video, drawing
and text. He recently had his
first solo show and a monographic publication presented
in The Galerie Plume (París).
He’s participated in many
collective exhibitions, such as
Regards (Grenoble, Bastille arts
Center) or Fables et Fragments
(Paris School of Fine Arts). His
work has also been included in
many video festivals such as
Hors Pistes (Georges Pompidou Art Center), Vidéoformes
in Clermont-Ferrand, Les
Rencontres Internationales
de la video (Madrid, Circulo de
Bellas Artes), Traverses Video in
Toulouse, etc. Actually lives and
works in Paris.

Miss Kong portrays an
overweight woman jumping
robe. The focus is in the slow
motion movement of the flesh,
which is shot in close-ups of
body parts. The image shows a
woman as an extreme physical
being without the lightness of
the feminine ideal. The sounds
in the piece, the bumping and
gasping and the slapping of
flesh, gain pace as the exercise
continues. It replicates the
experience of the film King
Kong of a presence that is too
big and clumsy in relation to
the surrounding world and its
rules of behaviour. The figure
of Miss Kong combines Kong
and the young woman that he
worships.
BIOGRAPHY
Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a
graduate of the Academy of
Fine Arts in Helsinki and the
University of Art and Design
in Helsinki. She has actively
worked as visual artist since
1996. Since 2005 she is a senior lecturer in Fine Arts at the
Tampere University of Applied
Sciences. Suoniemi lives and
works in Helsinki and Tampere
and runs Huoltamo gallery and
project space in Tampere.

In this short single-channel
video one can hear and see
samples recorded in periurban transition spaces [highway lanes, rest stops, restaurants and truck stops]. This
anonymous, interchangeable
places without any identity of
their own, indetermined and
without destination certainly
leave space for flight, a drift
of the mind which can, in this
way, question the possibility
of imagination in contexts
that are overcoded with
information.
BIOGRAPHY
Virginie Laganière [Montreal/
Canada] works in the field
of new media arts, where
considerations for technology
[media], sociopolitics, aspects
of the human psyche and
built space become integral
elements in the elaboration
of in situ environments. Her
video works and site specific installations have been
shown internationally. She
is also the co-founder of the
sound project The Maconik
Majesties and she makes
sound / noise with Woman
With Kitchen Appliances
[WWKA] since 2010.

This work is a sculpture, but
we show only a video wich
have a commercial function for
the product . Sculpture can be
acquire only through the video.
It’s inspired by Robert Smithson’s concepts of Specific Site
and No-Site. The sculpture exists only in a commercial video
so it belongs to No-Site, that
will eventuate in an ephemeral
or destructive artwork because
if it doesn’t sell it will cease to
exist.
On the contrary, it will be a
Specific Site if someone buys it.
BIOGRAPHY
AGGTELEK (1978 Barcelona) is
the name in art of the Gema
Perales y Xandro Vallès’s
project. From the beginning as
collective in 2003, they explore
and create works about sculptural and performing in video.
With differents discipline as
performance, design, fotography, installation, etc, their work
relativizes the idea of creators
as unic author, questioning the
artist’s obsession to conceptualize objects.

Not without my music is a
personal playlist of videos of
artists from Barcelona, whose
work would not be the same
without the essential mark of
music in their lives. A friendly
single-channel screening that
runs, with some willingness
to cadence, a route where the
music serves as structuring
device and dissonant element,
making way for a range of
lectures about the music as an
element that instills a sense of
the image. The sound quality
as an ubiquitous quality in human life and the music records
and the music that transcend
the place of sound, its natural
habitat, to be in dialogue
with image, space, body and
imaginary that becomes with
conjunctions and historical
drift.
With Fito Conesa, Carles
Congost, Jose Antonio Delgado
aka Anamor, Sònia Gómez +
Txalo Tolosa, Esther Planas,
Alejandro Vidal,

A sour recreation of the classic television show Sesame
Street, in which a stuffed felt
is responsible for mediating between the different
program contents. In this
case Mr Cd Eyes interview
Genis Segarra (Astrud, Hidrogenesse, Austria-Hungary),
who does not seem willing to
accept the cluster of topics
that the doll wants to impose
on him and his image.

BIOGRAPHY
Carles Congost works with
different medias to reflect
about processes of creation
and production of artistic
works and how they are
intertwined with life. His
aesthetic referents come
from the pop universe, the
pop music, the aesthetics of
masses, the musical video,
series B, and the TV culture.
His work examines the
encounter between high and
low culture in artistic forms,
including design, fashion or
youth advertising.

The camera draws back. Here,
the fragmentation of the body
is executed by a stroboscope
light: none of the dancing bodies appear as a whole in the
video, the light cuts them into
pieces as if it were a sharp
knife. But the mass of people
does not see this aggressive
action as a threat at all: To
the sound of an acoustic guitar, (and not to the electronic
sound of techno-music) they
sway in slow motion from side
to side in the darkness.
BIOGRAPHY
Alejandro Vidal exhibited in
museums and art centers as Participant Inc Nueva
York ,Kunsthalle Winterthur;
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona;
Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna;
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt;
The Museum of Contemporary
Art,Taipei ; MIS, Sao Paulo;
Da2, Salamanca; Kling & Bang,
Reikjavik; Mambo Bologna y
Kunstmuseum Berna. Ha expuesto en las galerías ARTRA
Milan; Joan Prats Barcelona;
Elba Benitez Madrid; Thomas
Schulte and Play Berlin and
Monitor Roma.

Fito Conesa recorded the
elevator of the building in
which lives in Barcelona and
he sent the film to Miguel
Leiria, who, with the bass
from Lisbon, puts soundtrack
using the image as the only
score. They met on myspace
and decided to work together
on this project of glorification
of everyday life, without a
single phone call and with the
web as unique tool.
BIOGRAPHY
Fito Conesa is graduated of
the University of Barcelona.
First award in the young
artists call of Cartagena 2001
and 2004. He participated
in such collective exhibition
as BCNProduccio 2009 or
intervention in the lobbies
of Caixaforum Tarragona
and Lleida. Recently gave a
workshop for the Barcelona
Caixaforum and MACBA en
familia educational projects.
Currently he has two year
residency at Hangar.

A video based on a performance, mixing elements of my
relationship with Terrassa, in
a dreamlike and free setting,
totally nostalgic for me, as
the grass of the field where
I played Hockey, the CD Terrassa. The image draws in
reviews and benchmarks,
music listening, people, and
how I saw them, my fears and
victories, everything scrambled
crates a dream of my own
aesthetical and interior taste.
BIOGRAPHY
My job is relate the immediate environment with the
fictitious, and thus shape the
relations could play with the
feelings and the different
situations between sender and
receiver. The series The Loser
(2006) marks the outlines of
an action’s own format and a
continuing need to play with
reality in installations, actions,
or videos. Later actions and
installations show the exercise
of mixing vital and fiction.

Fusion in profusion. The search
for completeness. The Return
of the androgyne. The cycle
of death. Rosas busting like
bullets spit in the temple.
Videosculptures. Dwell in the
other you live. Rotating the
subject of (self) representation.
My house is your house, and
your house is mine. My house
is your house, and your house
is mine. Is love devotion one’s
self abortion?

ALL CATS ARE GREY
A cover by my band Dirty
Snow of my favourite song
from The Cure as the soundtrack for a new film, based on
what I consider a tradition for
my films: mixing vampires,
addiction, cinema and love.
This piece was also part of
a mixed-media installation
including paintings, work
on paper, sound and film:
Fritz Lang meets Cocteau,
Les Enfants Terribles and
Maya Deren, impossible love,
hypnotism, medical graphics,
Irma Vep and the oriental
box.
BIOGRAPHY
Esther Planas is a visual artist and performer. His work
explores the chance encounter that its many activities
generate in the artistic practices context, torn between
the illustration of cultural references and more subjective
and intimate aproximations
to these sources: movement, cinema, voice, guitar,
nightclub, publishing, collage,
sound , assembly, photocopying, ready-mades, philosophy,
archival material, curators
and history.

Juan Conesa is a professor
of Ikebana of Murcia which
engaged the services of Sònia
Gómez, within his project Experiencias con un desconocido,
under the modality Club Company Dancer. Sònia took the
exchange with Juan to record
this piece, originally conceived
as a corporate campaign that
advocates for body artistic
expression and physical health
practices.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sònia Gómez is dancer, performer and business woman.
She studies Contemporary
Dance and Choreography
in the Institut del Teatre in
Barcelona and at P.A.R.T.S.
Brussels. She has worked with
General Electric, La Carnicería
Theater and La Fura dels Baus.
Collaboring with Joan Morey,
Juanjo Sáez, Chicks on speed,
Txell Miras, Sergi Faustino,
Carlos Salas, Alex Brahim and
ComRadio. Since 2004 she created her company and her own
shows and performances.

Txalo Toloza-Fernández is
Video producer, performer and
curator. He has pecialized his
work in creating audiovisual
work aimed at the contemporary arts. Regular collaborator
of the performer Sònia Gómez
and of the stage director Roger
Bernat, Todos los garndes
tienen problemas de piel is his
first solo show. He is currently
preparing Trópico, his next
stage project.

Recounts an ancient love story of the Sufi poet’s daughter
Aisha Bibi and Karakhan,
the Central Asian version of
Romeo and Juliet, visually
transforming it into a modern
day drama of unfulfilled longing, unconditional love and its
underlying gender discourse,
addressing a never ceasing
problematic synergy/symbiosis, deeply rooted in the
civilizations born between the
elements of earth and sky.

Explores the emotional,
spiritual and cultural residues
of an ancient belief system,
still resonating among the
peoples of Central Asia today
the Tengriism (sky religion) of
the Turkic tribes, reaching from
Eurasia to the Pacific Ocean.

Parametabolic presents an
omniscient viewpoint from
which to suspend time,
movement, and consumption of a cultural spectacle.
Circulation flow varies from
funneled security checkpoints
to random encounters with
others in the system. The
rhythm between guided
and free choice creates an
alternative form of drawing
as people leave trace marks
in space.

I am preoccupied with that
which can be seen and what
attracts our gaze. I find it
fascinating that the body of a
woman is captivating beyond
comparison. As she moves
through a space all eyes fall on
her. She is alluring by choice or
is victimized by the glares of
onlookers, either way we cannot take our eyes off her.
BIOGRAPHY
Grimanesa Amorós is an
interdisciplinary artist with
diverse interests in the fields
of social history, scientific
research and critical theory,
which have greatly influenced
her work. She often makes use
of sculpture, video, and lighting
to create works that illuminate
our notions of personal identity and community. Amorós
utilizes her art as an agent
for empowerment to involve
viewers from all different backgrounds and communities.
She was born in Lima, lives and
works in New York City.

Sub Specie Aeternitatis From the perspective of the
eternal.
A voyage through space and
time guided by voices of
scientists, philosophers and
artists. Intertwined frames of
travel through a tunnel with
advanced medical imagery
and the natural movement
of waters incite the viewer
to disconnect, immersed in
the experience and guided by
voices.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in France in 1975,
nationality Franco-American,
lives curently in Barcelona.
Studied art at the School
of Visual Arts in New-York
City, USA and at PSCA in
Pont-Aven, FR. Exhibitions
include Queens Museum
of Arts, NYC,USA- Scope
Art Fair, Miami Beach,USA
-TPTP Gallery, Paris, FranceRolli Days Violabox Gallery,
Genova,Italy- BAC Festival,
BCN,Spain- Multidisciplinary
artist working with sculpture,
sound and video as favorite
mediums.

MIGUEL RIVERO
Was born in Lima in 1975,
where he graduated in Communication Sciences and
worked as a cultural journalist. In 2004 he moved to
Barcelona, where he studied
the Master of Digital Arts at
Pompeu Fabra University.
As video artist, has participated in group exhibitions at
the Cultural Center of Spain
in Lima and Caixa Forum in
Barcelona. Currently, his work
drifts between interactive web
design and electronic music.
FRANCISCO ESTRADA
Borned in Lima, Peru, in 1975.
He studied modern dance and
Communication, and worked
as a cultural journalist in a
newspaper of national circulation. In parallel, he developed
a career as a musician. In
2006, he traveled to study
the master of Psicocreativity
at Universidad Autónoma de
Barcelona, and specialized in
critical journalism of stage
projects with new digital
media. He founded the cultural magazine McOndo, and
currently writes freelance for
medias; as Le Cool.